1. Karmen Hren Statistical Office of Slovenia
Administrative Arrangement for Providing Data Sources for National Accounts Compilation
Seminar on Supervisory and Control Systems for National Accounts Purposes
Karmen Hren Statistical Office of Slovenia

2. Main elements National Statistics Act Agreements with institutions
Internal coordination
Eurostat, 8-9 December 2009

3. National Statistics Act - 1
Provides for very strong legal institutional settings
Adopted in 1995 and amended in 2001
Most important elements:
Nobody shall be entitled to give to the DG of SURS binding instruction with regard to professional and methodological issues (e.g. methodologies of statistical surveys, extend and kind of data that shall be collected).
(a) Programmes of statistical surveys: medium-term and annual. They describe statistical requirements.
Eurostat, 8-9 December 2009

4. National Statistics Act - 2
(b) Annual programme of statistical surveys:
decided by the DG of SURS
in order to implement the Programme SURS has the right to collect data from all existing sources
reporting units must transmit complete and correct data to SURS free of charge, at the proper time and in the prescribed manner
the Programme indicates for each statistical survey:
content (list of variables to be reported by reporting units)
purpose of the survey
periodicity of the survey
reference period of the survey
selection of statistical units (reporting population)
obligatory or voluntary reporting
deadline for the submission of data by reporting population
deadline for publishing the results by SURS.
Eurostat, 8-9 December 2009

5. National Statistics Act - 3
Holders of official and administrative data collections are obliged to:
submit to SURS all requested information free of charge
use valid national standards (e.g. unique identifications of businesses and people, classification of economic activities, classification of institutional sectors)
notify SURS and ask for its opinion prior to setting new or amending existing official or administrative data collections
SURS has the right to use identifiable individual data from all sources and may mutually link all individual data
Eurostat, 8-9 December 2009

6. Agreements with institutions - 1
Agreements are signed with institutions which collect statistics in their own fields of work and with holders of administrative data collections (records, registers, databases, etc.), e.g.:
Agency for Public Legal Records and Related Services
Tax Administration
Customs Administration
Bank of Slovenia
Health Social Security Fund
Pension Social Security Fund
Central Securities Clearing Corporation
Ministry of the Interior
Ministry of Transport
Ministry of Finance
Post and Electronic Communications Agency
Eurostat, 8-9 December 2009

7. Agreements with institutions - 2
Agreements complement National Statistics Act and the Programme of Statistical Surveys.
They deal with technical details for the transmission of individual data to SURS and with other forms of cooperation.
Currently, 24 agreements are signed relevant for economic statistics.
Eurostat, 8-9 December 2009

8. Internal coordination
Regular meetings of SURS’s directors
Meetings every second Friday
Purpose:
to monitor how the deadlines for the publication of statistical results are met
to solve possible difficulties in the processing of data
Eurostat, 8-9 December 2009